[Leaplist] Re: Rotating Wheel Mouse

[John Simpson]

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On 2008-09-17, at 1134, Hale Pringle wrote:
>
> I recently had the same problem with a wheel mouse.  It turned out  
> that the
> wheel was very sensitive to being pressed and that resulted in a Paste
> Click.  In FireFox this would give me the unexpected jump to an odd  
> URL (eg.
> www.p.com).  I changed to a different mouse and the problem when away.

yeah, almost all mice with wheels nowadays have the ability to  
register the wheel itself being pressed down as a third mouse button.

depending on your OS, the driver may have a tool which lets you map  
the various buttons to different actions (i.e. a thumb button might do  
double-click, for example.) if so, you can map the "wheel button"  
click to "nothing", and then if you do happen to trigger that button,  
it won't do anything.

i know this is true of the logitech mice under OSX (and i'm pretty  
sure under windows as well.) from what i remember, mouse button  
mappings are handled as X preferences on a per-application basis, so  
you can probably do the same thing under linux as well.


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